I was doing some routine database cleanup for one of my side projects a few months ago, and honestly, it was depressing. For every real person signing up, I had three accounts sitting there with domains like @10minutemail.com or @trashmail.net. These "burner" emails are the worst. They bl

I consider myself pretty open-minded when it comes to music. If you look at my library, you'll see a bit of everything. But lately, I caught myself doing that thing we all do: hitting play on the same three playlists, completely at the mercy of the algorithm. I needed a way to break out of the l

Two years ago, I wrote about my humble Raspberry Pi setup tucked under the TV cabinet. It was a great entry point into the world of self-hosting, but as any tinkerer knows, the "good enough" setup eventually hits a ceiling. Since then, my home lab has seen some serious hardware upgrades a